It was a much simpler, and in many ways a better time back then. One of the best things about today, is being able to share this together in this forum . Thanks for all the great stuff Fred.😎
Thank you all for your service. I missed the draft and Vietnam, graduating high school in 1978. Not complaining, just saying. My father and grandfather were Navy and Marine veterans respectively, and my sister's son is currently serving in the Corps. I'm the generation that skipped serving, and I oft times regret it. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I'm the same age as you and totally agree! He was my mother's favorite, she saw him in concert once. I always enjoy watching some of his old movies that are in color, and I have his duets album CDs that I purchased years ago when they first were released and have really enjoyed them.
I was 8 in 1974 and I actually remember my mother and my aunt's watching that's my mama and I think there was a song called Sunshine based on the John Denver song sunshine on my shoulders it was such a magical time I have such a great yearning to go back
I also was 9 in Oct. '74. My parents (born in the 1920s) were big Sinatra fans dating back to the 1940s when he was "the skinny kid from Hoboken". I didn't appreciate how great Frank was at 9 but I certainly do now at 59.
I'm European, born in 1979 and even for me it is insanely nostalgic. I've always had this bizarre feeling I must have have been living in the US in my past life. 😂
21 you were still a boy who hadn't experienced life yet... probably was still a virgin..had never gone to a night club...never traveled outside of your state...
I fell out of a treehouse and wound up spending about a month in the children’s ward at the hospital due to a broken arm, leg, and a few ribs. Most of my time was spent either watching TV or chatting with the other kids at the hospital.(many of whom were younger than me because I was 12 at the time) So I remember seeing a lot of this and despite being really unhappy at the time, it still gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia when I look back on it!
@@ultimatevintagefan7747 Thank goodness you reached adulthood. The worst accident when I was a boy happened in January 1962 when I slipped and fell forward and broke my forehead on the cast iron radiator when I ran to say goodbye to my late father who went to work from the bedroom window. I received several stitches within an hour at the hospital. My shoes were really worn out that day.
My mother, who had 2 sons married my stepfather who had 3 sons, were married in 1973 and right after that ,we moved to Okinawa for 2 and a half years, so in October 1974 we were living on Kadena Air Base( my stepfather was in his last year of his 20 year service in the Air Force) in Okinawa ,Japan , I was just 13 years old in the 8th grade. Amazing experience at such a young age ..
Kiss "hotter the n hell "part of 3 album set still got my LP. Frank was still belting it out with authority ! Karl Kolchak a 8 year old kids hero monster hunter !
2 years after Agnes, we were just starting to feel normal again. I moved out of my 62 Nova, back into our house after renovating the flood damage with my brother.
This brought back such good memories and real comfort, thank you Fred. It was wild you included that Greyhound commercial. I turned 13 in Oct 74, but a couple months earlier my grandma took me to Washington DC for a couple days for my birthday. She didn't drive, we made the 6 hour trip on a Greyhound, I loved it. From what I hear though, they're not what they used to be.
Hey. I don't know who you are, but I love your stuff. I grew up just outside of Boston. If u find any local stuff from here please post. Keep up the good work and god bless
I'm glad to see that "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" has a huge cult following today among people who weren't even born when the show originally aired. I loved that show. Where else would you see Eric Estrada in a pink three-piece tuxedo?...or the ghost of a headless biker out for revenge?...or Tom Skerritt as a politician who turns into a Hell hound that destroys his enemies?
Great video Fred, I found your channel about a few weeks ago and I was 13 in 74 and remember all of these clips it brought back memories of the best decade of my life. I remember when TV at that time was still in its experimental stage such as cop shows, variety shows, and made for TV movies of the week, I'm so glad that I grew up in the 70's, I've always felt that the 70's really was the last gasp of simplicity, and then the 80's came and I've always felt that the 80's was the beginning of the end economically, politically, and socially. I know many of my generation have this 80's admiration society, however I'm not one of them. I graduated in 79 went to college in 80. I'd go back to the 70's in a heartbeat if I could. lol Keep up the great work Fred !!
What a great time the ‘70s were. The best music. The “Rumble in the Jungle” was a neighborhood event. Everyone gathered at a neighbors garage, he had put his TV in there, the OG man cave.
8:40. Phantom of the Paradise was a film that largely flopped everywhere except in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It played here almost continuously, well into the spring of '75. Every local kid in junior high and high school saw it and a large number of those kids bought the soundtrack.
I was more into music than TV starting from Fall '74. The reason? I could carry it with me everywhere while TV I couldn't. I even chose "Chico..." theme song to the show itself. So the second batch of titles, with a couple of exceptions, are part of my life's soundtrack... and then Sinatra 🎵🎶🎵... and Ali and Reggie Jackson. Nothing to do but there you go. Great month, Fred. 💜🤟
I graduated from high school in 1975. A few weeks after the ceremony, I received something in a plain Manila envelope. When I opened it, imagine my surprise to see the latest issue of Playgirl. I had been gifted a year’s subscription, but I never found out who the “gifter” was. Imagine trying to explain that to my mom! She was okay with it, as long as she could look at it first!
Chock full o' memories, Fred, nice. The only one I don't remember is Phantom of the Paradise, I'm gonna have to try to find that one. Back then I thought Frank Sinatra was so square. Well, you know what they say about teenagers, you don't know what you don't know! 👍👍👍👍👍
Boston 14 years old in 1974 I look back fondly, but it's funny how we romanize the past, I do miss being a teenager, no computers, no online, if you missed a phone call, you missed it, if someone told me back then that in the future we'd carry a phone around with us, I'd have said that's a nightmare, on call 24/7, why would I want that.
I just looked up actress Meredith Macrae, who appears in the mattress commercial at 3:49. OMG, she died an awful death and way too early. She had brain cancer at 56. It was terminal, but she agreed to participate in an experimental drug test. The drug made her brain swell so badly she needed two more surgeries before she died and broke her hip from a bad fall caused by imbalance due to the swelling... damn, RIP Meredith (she looked very familiar, she's been in everything)
She was in the TV show Petticoat Junction in the 1960s, but I primarily remember her for Midmorning L.A., the great talk show from the early 80s. She was a great interviewer and the show didn't shy away from controversial topics.
It sure ain't that America anymore. It's like we're living in a completely different universe today. I know we had trouble back then, some big ones... but... the world back then seemed a whole lot more innocent. 1 + 1 still = 2, with no questions asked. Not so much today.
That Oakland victory over the Dodgers was not only their third consecutive World Championship, it was the fourth of five straight AL West titles. And they could've had six in a row if they hadn't gotten swept in that last 3-game series at K.C. against the Royals. The Yankees may have grabbed more headlines, but the A's owned most of that decade until Charlie Finley sold off or traded all the players who got them there.
I'll bet that more people associate George Foreman with electric grills than even know of his former career in boxing without having looked him up on Wikipedia. Baseball.players were popular, likeable, folksy heroes to cast in commercials but here we are 50 years later---interest in baseball continues to wane, particularly among Gen Z, yet elite ballplayers are getting astronomical multiyear contracts with eight figure yearly salaries. Privately owned ball clubs worth billions want taxpayers to foot part or all of the bill for new stadiums in a time when few can shell out hundreds for a group of four plus food and beer to enjoy one game.
That month and year I had turned 6, and do remember most of these shows and things associated with life in America then. The Watergate scandal went on for years, and Nixon (like any other politician) denied any wrongdoing, the last I'd heard of anything pertaining to it was in '78! The Athletics 3rd straight WS win was bookended by 2 WS losses, or 5 straight WS appearances. Lol Wolfman Jack vo for The Phantom of the Paradise movie, was outta sight, man! OWOOOOO. Thanks for this oh so special visit back to my childhood, Fred! 👍
Was there ever a more mismatched theme song to a sitcom than "Chico and the Man"... the theme song is very good, but it implies a level of sentimentality between "Chico" and "the Man" that the show never aspired to have. It was just a typical wisecracking 70s sitcom that was occasionally funny. A little bit like "Welcome Back Kotter" but not as good. Freddy Prinze shot himself during the run and that was all for the show. The Man is the grandpa from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Being a teen during the 70's was magical when looked at through today's spectrum.
It was like a wonderland the best times ever
Got that right, looking back. It's the best era I experienced.
It was a much simpler, and in many ways a better time back then. One of the best things about today, is being able to share this together in this forum . Thanks for all the great stuff Fred.😎
The sharing is good, tigre.
I think back then things were exciting, exhilarating and more interesting 😊 thankful for the times God bless America!
I surely miss the times I knew.
I came home from the Army in Oct. 1974 and began the second part of my life. Great memories.👍👍
I was in the Marine Corps on Okinawa back in October 1974. Thanks for your service in the Army. 1974, I still had 3 more years in Marine Corps.
I was in boot camp at MCRD San Diego in Oct. 74. Needless to say Oct 74 really sucked for me 😊
@pap3260 I was a year ahead of ya. Oct-Dec 1973. Parris Island, Plt 395, India Co, 3rd Bn. Yes, boot camp sucked. Semper Fi Devil Dog
Thank you all for your service. I missed the draft and Vietnam, graduating high school in 1978. Not complaining, just saying. My father and grandfather were Navy and Marine veterans respectively, and my sister's son is currently serving in the Corps. I'm the generation that skipped serving, and I oft times regret it.
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@@pap3260 So was I, platoon 2107, I thought it was great, because it was much better than what I left behind.
October of 1974 I was 9. I had no appreciation for just how good a vocalist Sinatra was, now at nearly 59, I’d call him the greatest of my lifetime.
same here
I'm the same age as you and totally agree! He was my mother's favorite, she saw him in concert once. I always enjoy watching some of his old movies that are in color, and I have his duets album CDs that I purchased years ago when they first were released and have really enjoyed them.
I was 8 in 1974 and I actually remember my mother and my aunt's watching that's my mama and I think there was a song called Sunshine based on the John Denver song sunshine on my shoulders it was such a magical time I have such a great yearning to go back
I also was 9 in Oct. '74. My parents (born in the 1920s) were big Sinatra fans dating back to the 1940s when he was "the skinny kid from Hoboken". I didn't appreciate how great Frank was at 9 but I certainly do now at 59.
October 1974, I was stationed on Okinawa. We only had one American radio and TV station . AFRTS, Armed Forces Radio & TV Station. Semper Fi
I was 18 in 1974. They were the “good old days” and I didn’t know it!
I'm European, born in 1979 and even for me it is insanely nostalgic. I've always had this bizarre feeling I must have have been living in the US in my past life. 😂
I turned 21 in October 1974, and the wife and I got married that December. We are still going strong.
Congratulations!
21 you were still a boy who hadn't experienced life yet... probably was still a virgin..had never gone to a night club...never traveled outside of your state...
🎉🎉🎉
I fell out of a treehouse and wound up spending about a month in the children’s ward at the hospital due to a broken arm, leg, and a few ribs. Most of my time was spent either watching TV or chatting with the other kids at the hospital.(many of whom were younger than me because I was 12 at the time) So I remember seeing a lot of this and despite being really unhappy at the time, it still gives me a warm feeling of nostalgia when I look back on it!
My goodness! Were you at the top of a Redwood tree in California? 😮 The fall was possibly 1 minute to hit the ground! 😂
@@luislaplume8261 It was a big maple tree in rural Alberta, Canada! 🇨🇦 and I was in the air for probably that long before hitting the ground. 😂
@@ultimatevintagefan7747 Thank goodness you reached adulthood. The worst accident when I was a boy happened in January 1962 when I slipped and fell forward and broke my forehead on the cast iron radiator when I ran to say goodbye to my late father who went to work from the bedroom window. I received several stitches within an hour at the hospital. My shoes were really worn out that day.
Good golly Fred, thanks for this, especially on a rainy Monday. 👍
Happy to oblige, Gregg.
Loved the 70's!
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My mother, who had 2 sons married my stepfather who had 3 sons, were married in 1973 and right after that ,we moved to Okinawa for 2 and a half years, so in October 1974 we were living on Kadena Air Base( my stepfather was in his last year of his 20 year service in the Air Force) in Okinawa ,Japan , I was just 13 years old in the 8th grade. Amazing experience at such a young age ..
Ah yes, the America we knew and loved and the fond memories that remain in our collective memories. Thank you Fred.😊😘💙💜🤎
You're welcome, jbaker.
these are such great, great videos...please do more of them!!!
Nice work Fred, thanks.
You're welcome, lucano57.
Wow! These memories will last a lifetime. Could you do a 1974 a year in pictures.
Thank you.
It's already on my channel.
Thanks for the video!
You're welcome, l j.
Kiss "hotter the n hell "part of 3 album set still got my LP. Frank was still belting it out with authority ! Karl Kolchak a 8 year old kids hero monster hunter !
My favorite TV monster hunting series at that time on weekends! 😊
Love The Night Stalker
2 years after Agnes, we were just starting to feel normal again. I moved out of my 62 Nova, back into our house after renovating the flood damage with my brother.
What a great ending!
Fred 😊 You amaze me ! This is great so many great memories Thank you 🙂
A whole lot more in the coming weeks, cwilson.
This brought back such good memories and real comfort, thank you Fred. It was wild you included that Greyhound commercial. I turned 13 in Oct 74, but a couple months earlier my grandma took me to Washington DC for a couple days for my birthday. She didn't drive, we made the 6 hour trip on a Greyhound, I loved it. From what I hear though, they're not what they used to be.
It seems nothing is, Doug.
I was Born 1970 & i do remember this as a kid....Simple Times👍
All I can say is , Thanks Fred...!
You're welcome, Rick.
Hey. I don't know who you are, but I love your stuff. I grew up just outside of Boston. If u find any local stuff from here please post. Keep up the good work and god bless
I'm glad to see that "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" has a huge cult following today among people who weren't even born when the show originally aired. I loved that show. Where else would you see Eric Estrada in a pink three-piece tuxedo?...or the ghost of a headless biker out for revenge?...or Tom Skerritt as a politician who turns into a Hell hound that destroys his enemies?
Double bonus points for the Queen ref. 1974 was the year I was lost to Freddie and I ain't got back yet. Great, great job, Fred.
Thanks, CAM.
Just started high school then. Had some really great times. Sure do miss those days! Thank you for this Fred.
You're welcome, Debbie.
Great video Fred, I found your channel about a few weeks ago and I was 13 in 74 and remember all of these clips it brought back memories of the best decade of my life. I remember when TV at that time was still in its experimental stage such as cop shows, variety shows, and made for TV movies of the week, I'm so glad that I grew up in the 70's, I've always felt that the 70's really was the last gasp of simplicity, and then the 80's came and I've always felt that the 80's was the beginning of the end economically, politically, and socially. I know many of my generation have this 80's admiration society, however I'm not one of them. I graduated in 79 went to college in 80. I'd go back to the 70's in a heartbeat if I could. lol Keep up the great work Fred !!
Much appreciated, gunnoir.
Oh w ow, I never heard of that movie "Phantom of the Paradise" . It looked like a great spoof hahaha. Thank you Fred!!!
I have a friend who loves that movie, Bridget.
@@FredFlix I love that movie as well, I have it on Blu Ray.
That was Di-No-MIGHT!
Thanks, JJ!
What a great time the ‘70s were. The best music. The “Rumble in the Jungle” was a neighborhood event. Everyone gathered at a neighbors garage, he had put his TV in there, the OG man cave.
8:40. Phantom of the Paradise was a film that largely flopped everywhere except in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It played here almost continuously, well into the spring of '75. Every local kid in junior high and high school saw it and a large number of those kids bought the soundtrack.
I was more into music than TV starting from Fall '74. The reason? I could carry it with me everywhere while TV I couldn't. I even chose "Chico..." theme song to the show itself. So the second batch of titles, with a couple of exceptions, are part of my life's soundtrack... and then Sinatra 🎵🎶🎵... and Ali and Reggie Jackson. Nothing to do but there you go. Great month, Fred. 💜🤟
Now everybody carries everything with them, Mercedes.
@@FredFlix Including myself. 😊 Back then you had to choose between staying at home or... not. 💜🤟
I remember the criticism of casting a Hungarian-Puerto Rican in the role of a Chicano.
I was only seven years old in 1974 but I remember just about every one of these items...
Enlisted in US Army..18 year old drop out..30 years Federal service,Enjoy it while it speeds by.Thanks Fred.
You're very welcome, Eli.
Now you need a H.S. Diploma to enlist in the Armed Forces.I guess because to many African Americans who didn't have H.S. Diplomas were enlisting.
I graduated from high school in 1975. A few weeks after the ceremony, I received something in a plain Manila envelope. When I opened it, imagine my surprise to see the latest issue of Playgirl. I had been gifted a year’s subscription, but I never found out who the “gifter” was. Imagine trying to explain that to my mom! She was okay with it, as long as she could look at it first!
Chock full o' memories, Fred, nice. The only one I don't remember is Phantom of the Paradise, I'm gonna have to try to find that one. Back then I thought Frank Sinatra was so square. Well, you know what they say about teenagers, you don't know what you don't know!
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Frank was really "old" to me then, Robert. But he was only 59!!!
I was a senior in high school having some of the greatest times of my life. It was a very special time.
Would have LOVED to have seen that Frank Sinatra concert in person!
To think, Nixon left office 2 months prior. I just began high school. Things just had to get better. Nice video collage.
I had just started high school also. Class of '78, woo-hoo! 😁👍👍
Thanks, NYV.
Boston 14 years old in 1974 I look back fondly, but it's funny how we romanize the past, I do miss being a teenager, no computers, no online, if you missed a phone call, you missed it, if someone told me back then that in the future we'd carry a phone around with us, I'd have said that's a nightmare, on call 24/7, why would I want that.
Wow, what memories I was 13 years old and October 1974
I was 13, too.
I was 11 in that beautiful bygone day!
Hi Fred, nice job as always ..
Thanks, David. Good hearing from you.
@@FredFlix I am still alive Fred, even though I had a stroke.
@@DGOODWIN19 I'm sorry to hear about that, David. How is your recovery going?
@@FredFlix -My recovery is going good, except my toes are still numb.
Loved this video! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks, Lizzy.
"The Texas Chainsaw Massacre", was that considered American Fine Art Cinema 50 years ago? 😝
Swank Magazine...now THAT'S art! 😍
Thanks, FredFlix.
You're welcome, Luis.
I just looked up actress Meredith Macrae, who appears in the mattress commercial at 3:49. OMG, she died an awful death and way too early. She had brain cancer at 56. It was terminal, but she agreed to participate in an experimental drug test. The drug made her brain swell so badly she needed two more surgeries before she died and broke her hip from a bad fall caused by imbalance due to the swelling... damn, RIP Meredith (she looked very familiar, she's been in everything)
She was in the TV show Petticoat Junction in the 1960s, but I primarily remember her for Midmorning L.A., the great talk show from the early 80s. She was a great interviewer and the show didn't shy away from controversial topics.
I was 9 years old in Oct. 1974. It’s funny that I remember these scenes as much as I do! 👍🏻
It sure ain't that America anymore. It's like we're living in a completely different universe today. I know we had trouble back then, some big ones... but... the world back then seemed a whole lot more innocent. 1 + 1 still = 2, with no questions asked. Not so much today.
Agreed, Peter.
You are so right man it was much better and much simpler back then
I really really miss the America I grew up with so much man it's breaking my heart man I mean up until maybe 15 years ago or 20
Vote Trump
A Great Way To End This Video Or Any Video, For That Matter!
All of a sudden there was a video recorder and a video rental store i watched 6 new films every week, life was good then lol.
I really enjoy your work Fred!! Thanks.
Glad you did, Marc.
Thanks Fred 👍
Turned 5 in Oct of 74. I'd go back in a minute.
5:12 I remember reading that that issue of Lampoon was their largest selling one.
Hey Fred! Yeah, I Was 16 In October '74 & Thanks So Much For The Memories! (Like #359)
You're welcome, watcher.
I got to admit Dinah Shore was one hot mature woman! And I am old enough to remember her TV talk show. She was even braless on one of her shows! 😊
😯Really?
Thx for the memories Fred!
You're welcome, MB.
That Oakland victory over the Dodgers was not only their third consecutive World Championship, it was the fourth of five straight AL West titles. And they could've had six in a row if they hadn't gotten swept in that last 3-game series at K.C. against the Royals. The Yankees may have grabbed more headlines, but the A's owned most of that decade until Charlie Finley sold off or traded all the players who got them there.
I'd go back in a heartbeat.
Some great memories!😎💣🔥
oh wow, the memories I just started high school 😃
Thx as always to Fredflix 👍 memories 📺🇺🇲
You're welcome, wheeler71.
Remember someone saying that Airport 75 was so inept they couldn't even get the year right. Krakatoa East of Java anyone?
I'll bet that more people associate George Foreman with electric grills than even know of his former career in boxing without having looked him up on Wikipedia.
Baseball.players were popular, likeable, folksy heroes to cast in commercials but here we are 50 years later---interest in baseball continues to wane, particularly among Gen Z, yet elite ballplayers are getting astronomical multiyear contracts with eight figure yearly salaries. Privately owned ball clubs worth billions want taxpayers to foot part or all of the bill for new stadiums in a time when few can shell out hundreds for a group of four plus food and beer to enjoy one game.
Hey, Steppenwolf or the Doors?
Doors.
Steppenwolf, the doors sucked!
Things were a lot simpler ✔️
to tell the truth...forgot about that one
That month and year I had turned 6, and do remember most of these shows and things associated with life in America then.
The Watergate scandal went on for years, and Nixon (like any other politician) denied any wrongdoing, the last I'd heard of anything pertaining to it was in '78!
The Athletics 3rd straight WS win was bookended by 2 WS losses, or 5 straight WS appearances.
Lol Wolfman Jack vo for The Phantom of the Paradise movie, was outta sight, man! OWOOOOO.
Thanks for this oh so special visit back to my childhood, Fred! 👍
Sure thing, Steve. Much more on the way.
Young Frankenstein Band on The Run my army men and planet of the apes toys those were the days
Thanks Fred miss police woman
You're welcome again, Cliff.
Was there ever a more mismatched theme song to a sitcom than "Chico and the Man"... the theme song is very good, but it implies a level of sentimentality between "Chico" and "the Man" that the show never aspired to have. It was just a typical wisecracking 70s sitcom that was occasionally funny. A little bit like "Welcome Back Kotter" but not as good. Freddy Prinze shot himself during the run and that was all for the show. The Man is the grandpa from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
As bad as the A's are today, they are still the only three-time champions in baseball outside the Yankees.
Class of 76 rules
Greyhound has fallen off big time!
A lot of crap on TV. Made me a better student.
Good point, John.
Me: Class of 1974 Hempfield High Landisville, PA
(Lancaster County)